Charlotte Bronte Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855
Birthday: April 21
Death: March 31
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
source: Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: Lapses, Answers, Tongue, Prompts
